Illegal-alien Crime Is Higher Than Many Think — and Is HIDDEN by Authorities

In 1994, famed-radio-host-to-be Michael Savage, an epidemiologist by training, wrote a manuscript titled Immigrants and Epidemics. In it, he pointed out that illegal aliens were bringing dangerous diseases into the United States. Yet despite Savage having long been a successful, published author, the work was rejected. The powers-that-be wanted such truths suppressed. And it appears, too, that the same cover-up is occurring with illegal-alien crime.

As with Savage’s deep-sixed sagacity, this is not a new story. But it is getting renewed attention. As American Thinker (AT) wrote last Thursday:

Every day, all over America, illegal aliens, legal immigrants, and naturalized Americans from a rogue’s list of countries to our South and from the Middle East kill, rape, rob, and defraud us, almost with impunity. Yet, if you try to prove it by citing reliable government statistics, you can’t. The left works hard — it may be its most important job — to ensure you can’t find out exactly how bad things really are across America.

The bottom line: almost no states or the federal government track crimes using reliable indicators of someone’s country of origin, immigration status, or citizenship status.

In fact, AT points out, many Democrat-run states have actually enacted laws prohibiting such data’s collection. They don’t want the public to know the reality of illegal-alien crime.

Their rationale is no mystery. Upon being naturalized, today’s immigrants vote Democratic by healthy margins. As for illegal aliens, they’d break Democratic by an even greater percentage upon achieving legal status. (It has been established, too, that such people sometimes cast votes even while illegal.) Moreover, illegals also count as U.S. population during censuses. They thus serve to give the states in which they’re squatting more representation in Congress — and hence more power. And they’re concentrated in Democratic-run states, with leftists purposely attracting them via the carrot of taxpayer-funded largesse.

In a nutshell, statists use illegal migration to import an electoral army that will grow their power. And they don’t want their army put in any kind of bad light.

There is, however, at least one state that does keep comprehensive records on illegal-alien crime: Texas. And by extrapolating its data, we can glean insight into the problem’s nationwide magnitude. More on that momentarily.

Signs of the Crimes

On the micro level, that magnitude’s indicators are everywhere. For example, it was just reported that in Fairfax County, Virginia, 75 percent of this year’s murders have been committed by illegals. The problem predates 2026, too. As Red Right Daily reports:

Fairfax County has seen a series of violent crimes over several years involving individuals identified by federal authorities as being in the country illegally. The cases are serious — murders, gang-related killings, domestic violence, repeat offenders.

Then, in April 2025, Fox News informed that in New York City,

206 illegal immigrants, the majority of whom have “egregious criminal histories to include manslaughter, rape, assault, drug trafficking and sex assault against minors,” were apprehended as part of [a federal operation].

Next, in 2024, City Journal told us that

after years of a migrant border “surge” — with countless asylum-seekers inadequately vetted and then allowed to enter the U.S. — state law-enforcement agencies now warn that immigrant gangs have seized control of many drug- and human-trafficking networks and have unleashed robbery sprees across the nation.

And last year, The New American reported that during Donald Trump’s second administration’s first 100 days, 66,000 illegals were removed. Seventy-fivepercent were dangerous criminals, too. Even now, with deportation numbers at approximately 600,000, about 40-60 percent of the expelled had criminal convictions or pending charges.

Texas Tells the Tale

But then there’s that glimpse into the bigger picture. Rendering its analysis, AT points out that Texas’ population is 9.2 percent as large as the entire country’s. The site then relates:

• Texas DPS cumulative DHS-matched counts (June 1, 2011–Feb 28, 2026): homicide 1,123; assault 78,122; robbery 3,394; sexual assault 7,629. These are charges tied to DHS-identified non-citizens.
• Time window length used: June 1, 2011 → Feb 28, 2026 ≈ 14.75 years.
• Calculations (method: proportional extrapolation)
• Sum Texas violent charges used: 1,123+78,122+3,394+7,629=90,268.
• Extrapolate to the US by population share: 90,268/0.09197\approx 981,500 total extrapolated US charges over the same period.
• Per-year estimate: 981,500/14.75\approx 66,600 violent-offense charges per year nationwide (DHS-matched non-citizen charges, estimated).
• Category breakdown (rounded) — Offense Texas cumulative Extrapolated US cumulative Estimated per year: Homicide 1,123 ~12,200 ~828 / year Assault 78,122 ~849,300 ~57,600 / year Robbery 3,394 ~36,900 ~2,500 / year Sexual assault 7,629 ~83,000 ~5,600 / year (Totals match rounded to ~66,600 violent, non-citizen crimes per year nationwide

In reality, though, the actual number of illegal-alien offenses is almost certainly far higher — in the hundreds of thousands yearly. Among other things (and the entire exposition is here), not all crimes result in arrests.

The Truth Would Spark Revolution?

Yet as stated earlier, this is unfortunately an old story. Just consider 2009 information provided by the Department of Homeland Security. It estimated “that immigrants (legal and illegal) comprise 20 percent of inmates in prisons and jails,” related the Center for Immigration Studies at the time. “The foreign-born are 15.4 percent of the nation’s adult population.”

So what can be concluded about this crime cover-up? Well, as AT puts it:

Can you imagine the outcry if we really could quantify the cost in actual murders, economic destruction, and the resulting loss of emotional wellness due to non-citizen crime? It would force change almost overnight, as if waking up from a nightmare.

The reality, too, is that we typically hear that most illegals are “good people.” (Unsaid: This is as much a “judgment on their souls” as is saying they’re bad people.) This is irrelevant, however. “Good person” status doesn’t bestow one with a dispensation from law.

Second, though, people who sneak into someone else’s country generally aren’t the best and the brightest. Such behavior — breaking just law as your opening act — is in fact a red flag. We thus shouldn’t be surprised when an inordinate number of these interlopers commit crimes, some heinous.

After all, it’s not just that “good fences make good neighbors.” It’s also that good neighbors respect your fences — be those fences good or bad.